On August 9, President Li Xiaolin and Consul General Zhang Qiyue from Chinese Consulate General in New York visited 93 year-old U.S. President 41 George H. W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine.
President Li and Consul General Zhang highly commended the significant contributions made by President Bush to the China-U.S. relations and wished him enjoying wonderful health and long life. President Bush told them that he still pays close attention to the bilateral relations and if he could make an international travel, China would be the only country that he wanted to go.